Re: [Devil-linux-develop] GCC buffer overflow (security) protection from IBM

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

I tried an older version and had some problems, we could try this one 
again.

Heiko

On 07/10/2003 04:29:17 PM "John van V." wrote:
>This is added to Gentoo and OpenBSD now for buffer overflow protection.
>
>
>===============================================
>What's the stack-smashing protector?
>
>It is a GCC (Gnu Compiler Collection) extension for protecting 
>applications
>from stack-smashing attacks. Applications written in C will be 
>protected by the
>method that automatically inserts protection code into an application at
>compilation time. The protection is realized by buffer overflow 
>detection and
>the variable reordering feature to avoid the corruption of pointers. 
>The basic
>idea of buffer overflow detection comes from StackGuard system.
>
>
>http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp/
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